Show UNCLE SAM IS PRO PROBING ING CONSPIRACY IN FILINGS I Federal Grand Grund Jury to In l lc c Filing on on Ac Acres eS Under New Acre AclO Homestead Act In possession of fragments of in information information information in- in formation pointing it is alleged to conspiracy In the filing of or applications applications for more than acres of land on the public domain in Utah during January officials of tho United United United Unit Unit- ed States land office and members of the department of or justice are engaged engaged engaged en en- in a probe which may result in the return of indictments when the April term of the federal grand Jury convenes convenes Th The lands In question are applied for under the acre grazing homo hom h stead law which became effective during the thee latter part of or December Applications Applications' for the land were filed in such great numbers that mild astonishment astonishment astonishment as as- developed among investigators investigators Investigators of the land laud office More than acres of land applied for is without precedent said H. H Stanley Hinrichs chief of the field division of the general United States land office while h he was en endeavoring to ascertain what Agents gents were behind the unusual in in teres teresi teres In the filing on acre grazIng grazing grazing graz graz- ing homesteads on which must live for periods of seven months during each of the first three years In order to acq acquire lre patent Information Information which las Has seeped out of the unprecedented interest is said to bear evidence that a great many of the applicants for acre grazing homesteads represent certain stock interests desirous of gaining eventual al of vast tracts of or grazing grazing grazing graz graz- ing range on the public domain It is reported that many of or the th prospective already have consented to la lay bare stories which will be of unusual Interest to the de de- of Justice While the unprecedented rush Inthe inthe in inthe the filing of applications for grazing was In progress in the United States land office during January January Jan January uary It is reported that experts of or orthe the Salt Lake field division of the general United States land office checked the identity of a majority of the applicants In turn turu they I studied maps and the manner in wl ch applications for homesteads are adjoined is said to bear proof either of ofa a a remarkable coincidence or the existence of ot a conspiracy which may mar be more extensive than Involved in any of the big land frauds In the w west st of recent date While Chief Chier Hinrichs of the general general general gen gen- eral land office admits that a very determined probe was In progress h he lie exhibited prec precautions in tn protecting I sources of or information for the pres pres- ent W. W W W. Ray United St States tes at torney has b been en consulted in reference reference reference refer refer- ence to much of the evidence which Is being collected |